On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 22:26:03 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:well, well, well, this wondrous electronic world.
The spell-checker doesn't work either (I cannot guarantee, though, that it
worked with 1.1.0).
Eureka !
This needed some hours of digging, though, therefore I put the recipe here
(for steef, as well).
The dictionaries have been moved to /usr/share/myspell/dicts
(Quite intelligent, I confess)
Since most are unavailable from Debian, you must pick
them up through OpenOffice. Roll up your sleeves. # /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice (root !) is how you start. Probably you'll have to set it up very basically. Don't enter any single thing, just make it go through. # /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice (root !)
Now OpenOffice opens up
Open the document DicOOo.sxw located in /usr/share/myspell/dicts
This works pretty well; accept it is a macro and you go to your preferred language (No, there is no documentation for this on www.openoffice.org. Ooops, there is, but fully outdated. Don't bother.) The document describes pretty well what to do (I refer to Dutch, at least). You select the language*s* for which you'd like to add the spellchecker and click yourself through (I needed 'doorgaan' some 5 times, though. YMMV. Your language might, as well). In order to test and use, I selected en-US, nl and Malay. Download and install proceeded automtically. A great piece of software, this DicOOo.swx !
Once you're done, close down, including all quickstarters. $ /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice and the added languages show up. At least here. YMMV, again Like, in my case, since only Dutch and English(US) can be selected through Options - Language Settings - Languages
Malay simply isn't on the list of languages in OpenOffice ! It has been installed, though: $ ls -l /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ms* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 16 13:53 /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ms_MY.aff -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153774 Apr 16 13:53 /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ms_MY.dic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65052 Apr 16 13:53 /usr/share/myspell/dicts/ms_MY.zip
I do wonder if this is a problem of Debian-OpenOffice or a generic one ?
Good luck,
Uwe
that dictooo.swx file i had discovered, after the debian way flipped on my machine. i installed openoffice.org (debian, sarge) but it not get it to work as a <user>. so i got fedup and went to the openoffice-website. further i spare you my <queeste> i got one version working now without further trouble i hope.
w'll see.
thanx for your crusade,
steef
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